The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-11-24
MISSISSIPPI PRESS.
DIVERS OPINIONS ON CUR.
RENT TOPICS TERSELY
EXPRESSED.
Pith aud Point.

NEW MIsSISSIPPIAN Fred Grant,
son of Ulysses the Great, was defeated
for Secretary of State of New York
by2l,0OJ majority! This is not a
great day for the sons of their
father.
SWORD n SHIELD: "a quarter of
a century in politics" or Tcenty fire
gears candidate for GorcyHor. would
not be an inapt title for the biography
of certain aspirant forgubernator-
ial hoaor~ in the next election.
NIIX>BURG Posi-: 1t appears that
Col. Jones Hamilton owes Warren
county more than $1,7O0 since 1888
for the use of its prisoners. 1t would
have been much better to have worked
these prisoners at home. The next
Legislature will be likely to put Il stop
to both the State and county leasing
system.
WooDvILLE REPUBLICAN: y sol
dicrs' home would be Il movement
more in accord with the civilization of
the Nineteenth Century and the de
mands of Christian Charity than one of
useless wood or stone. How much
better il would be if monument to
the dead should also be home and
shelter for the helpless living.
VICKsBURG PoST: The subject of
holding a Constitutional Convention
we think will receive considerable at
tention from this time forward until IA
Convention is held. The suffrage
question, the appointing power, the
looping off of the useless and eXpen-
sive officials: and the School question,
all demand action and remedies.
SWORD AND SHIELD: Farmers f.
L. Martin and l.. +. Chilcs attended
Pearl Alliance, Saturday last. We
don't know whether farmer Barksdale
was present or not, but we hear that
he was recommended to the agricultu-
rists and wheat raisers of the South
the trunk strap as the latest and most
improved threshing machine.
NATCHEz BANNER: Is there no
way by which to check the influx of
thieves and assassins ? Can not the
good be separated from the bad? Shall
we continue to receive the oif-ca>t of
every land without question These
questions are now before the people
for solution. Our statesmen are call
ed upon to solve the problem in ac-
cordance with the best interests of the
country.
NATCHEz BANNER: There is also
little doubt that President Cleveland
will be his own successor i'll the W hte
House. With the exception of the Re
publican leaders, whose chief aim
seems to be to misrepresent, and a few
sorehead Democrats, who were dlsap-
pointed in not securing government
patronage for themselves or their
friends, the people OF the United
States are satisfied with the present
administration.
BONNEVILLE PLEADER: When Il
doctor gets certificate to practice
medicine, it is ( God as long as he
wants to practice his profession.
When a lawyer takes out
license to practice his profess
sion, it is good till he dies or retires
from the professions. But when a
teacher gets certificate to teach
school, it lasts him only one year,
and if he wishes to continue teach
ing, he has to be examined again.
The Legislature should amend this
feature of law. 1t needs amending
in a good many other particulars.
NEW MIssISsIPPIAN: Those who at
tackGen. Georges letter upon the idea
that he was impclled by sinister, sell
fish motive. that he had so great and
important an interest i'll the a. q NJ.
College, that he must seek to tear
down the University at the expense of
honesty and truth, demonstrate moth
ing but their own bitterness and their
lack of knowledge of the brainest man
in Mississippi. There are arguments
for and against the positions he assum-
ed, but this is not one of them, and
all who attempt to prove false the mo-
tives of Gen. George will make a
gloomy failure.
LEXINGTON BULLETIN: They have
an open way of doing Criminal Court
business in Memphis. A few days ago
when the Grand-Jury brought into
court % indictments against the wharf
master for embezzlcment, Judge Du-
boise handed them to the clerk, stating
publicly what they were, and advised
the clerk to let the newspaper report
ers have them. Usually such things
are kept secret between the court
and officers, but in this instance they
were made public by the court itself
before the arrest was made; in fact
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